Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
A homicide detective realizes that the brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer he's a...
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul c...
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Lo...
Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from pros...
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When sh...
A series of murders involving a stripper are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter.
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special...
As a pair of towers in Tokyo are being prepared for their grand opening, there is a series of murder...
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. W...
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismember...
Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. De...
Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her hus...
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago ...
A message has arrived from Kid the Phantom Thief, that he will steal a Japanese sword belonging to w...
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavem...
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds...
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand he...
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels t...